Bruce Thayre wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
>    Ah I see, I guess I shouldn't mix bash notation when asking about a
> command I run in a shell.  So what you recommend is exactly what I've
> been doing.  Assume my router is MyRouter.domain, and the client behind
> the router is MyClient.  In MyClient's respective config file I have:
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'MyRouter.domain';
> 
>    When I run the command:
> 
>     sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v MyClient
> 
>    I get the output:
> 
>     Name server doesn't know about MyClient; trying NetBios
>     cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup MyClient
>     cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying MyClient on
>     111.222.111.222 name_query failed to find name MyClient
> 
>     NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host MyClient
>     host not found
> 
>    So what's going on is despite having the ClientNameAlias set,
> backuppc assumes the hostname is a netbios name.  Strangely enough the
> ip address that it dumps out is on my subnet, but is not actually in
> use.  I've set the backup method as rsyncd, so I would think backuppc
> would not use any netbios/samba related stuff. I've also tried using my
> router's ip address just in case I was having DNS problems, but I see
> the exact same behavior.  Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the
> patience.
> Thanks,
> Bruce

Did you try:
$ ping MyClient
what is the output?
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